Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice MSc
Queen's University BelfastBelfast, United Kingdom
Course overview
Do you want to advance your pharmacy career while continuing in employment? This postgraduate distance learning programme allows you fit your studies around your work and family commitments. Our Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice programme was developed following extensive consultation with pharmacists and their employers both within and beyond the United Kingdom.
It provides a flexible study pathway that is designed to develop the therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills of pharmacists to an advanced level. The modules are designed to help pharmacists to acquire and demonstrate the advanced-level competencies defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum. The MSc is open to pharmacists in all employment sectors although students must be able to undertake a project in either the primary or secondary healthcare sector in their final year.
The MSc can be completed entirely off-campus by distance-learning and is therefore open to pharmacists both within and outside the United Kingdom. Students in Great Britain may select the Independent Prescribing option in year 2, which includes a compulsory 5-day clinical skills residential at Queen's.
Key highlights
- Fully distance learning, studied around work and family commitments
- Maps to Royal Pharmaceutical Society Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum competencies
- Develops therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills to an advanced level
- Independent Prescribing option in year 2 for students in Great Britain
- Prescribing option includes a 5-day clinical skills residential on campus
- Final-year project in primary or secondary healthcare sector
Entry requirements
- IELTS: 6 — 6.0 IELTS* score of 6.0, with not less than 5.5 in any component, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University is require
Scholarships
International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship
Year one award of between £2000 and £5000.
Up to £2,000The Burdett Trust MSc Nursing Scholarships
For Home Students: Tuition fees £7,665 Stipend £10,250. For International Students: Tuition fees £24,295 Stipend £17,000
Vice Chancellor’s International Attainment Scholarship - Postgraduate Taught
Value: 50% of tuition fees paid for up to a maximum of two years.
Up to 50% of fees
Careers this course leads to
- Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
- Specialist Hospital Pharmacist
- Clinical Pharmacist (GP Practice)
- Consultant Pharmacist
Cost of study
UK/Home: £7,920 | International: £13,500
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Queen's University Belfast, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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